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OpenAI signaled its intentions to shift from a consumer-oriented AI company to an enterprise-oriented AI company a little over a year ago at its annual Demo Day and has made significant progress after mostly ceding the market to rival Anthropic during the early days of the generative AI boom. President Greg Brockman told The Wall Street Journal Wednesday that while OpenAI struggled to make that transition at the beginning of 2026, by the third quarter enterprise revenue surpassed consumer revenue for the first time.
The launch of new models focused on coding and cybersecurity paved the way, as did the warm developer reception for its Codex coding agent, but long-term enterprise growth will require OpenAI to support clients with several different products that work well together. The acquisition of Pierre Computer, announced Wednesday, could tempt enterprises to give it more business by addressing one of their biggest pain points of 2026: GitHub reliability.
Pierre (which has a delightful lo-fi 80s-chic web site) operates a service called Code Storage, which was designed to "store [customers'] generated code, memory files, design artifacts, legal documents, and other product files and resources that change over time." That sounds a lot like GitHub, and Pierre's tools are already part of OpenAI's…
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